Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.

Archaeologists have spent years puzzling over evidence of severed head rituals among Iron Age communities in the northeast ...

The Viking Age saw the pillaging of the British Isles, France, and the Mediterranean until inequality, Christianity, and sex ended the era.

Once upon a time, there was a Viking king. He prayed to Thor, Odin and Freya and ruled over a land that did not yet have an ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...

Matthew Coker, visiting assistant professor, is teaching a course on Old Norse II, while William Quinn, Distinguished Professor, is teaching a course on the Middle English Lyric.

Brandon Gerner, 42, allegedly slaughtered the animal, Lemon, so his fellow gang member Kody Olsen, who died in Dec. 2023 ...

Between 1606 and 1607, King Christian IV of Norway and Denmark sent explorers back to Greenland to renew claims on the land and a number of old sites were repopulated. When the Kingdoms of Norway and ...

The foundations for the Viking expeditions were laid on farms. Society became more stratified during this period, and carved ...

While the taco salad might be the star that’s worth planning a road trip around, The Viking Cafe’s menu offers plenty of ...